Spontaneous Cooperation believes that Buckminster Fuller was right when he said that the world could work for 100% of humanity with no disadvantage to anyone, and that it would take spontaneous cooperation to make it happen. However, I believe that it would save a great deal of suffering and sorrow if we established a framework for cooperation now rather than if we wait for such dire conditions to realize the need, and it be too late. We want to solve all of the worlds major problems by providing everyone the resources to identify the issue, develop and implement a solution with the help of the crowd, using the simplest most efficient technology.

Name three of your most respected peers in this discipline. How does your work compare or contrast with theirs?I don't know of any other person or group that is trying to solve all of the worlds problems at once. Annie Leonard seems to come close with her desire to change our culture, but it seems more like an awareness campaign than a resource. This is going to be entirely dependent on collaboration, the zip car lady has some interesting initiatives but they don't seem to have the same goal or scope. 80,000.org is similar, but more hardcore so it appeals to a narrower audience and doesn't go after root causes.

What are you currently working on?Currently working on finding collaborators and refining the message so that it can be communicated in such a way to convey the simplicity and the vast potential, without coming across as a utopian dream.

List three of your most outstanding previous accomplishments (include awards, published works, etc.).Choosing this wish will need to be based on the potential you see in the idea, not the awards to date. The accomplishments of the other nominees will be outstanding, they will probably win many awards and many other grants for their amazing work, Spontaneous Cooperation is not there yet. You have the chance to give this idea the world wide exposure and support it needs to capture the imagination of a generation and do more for the other nominees and their wishes, than winning the prize themselves.

What is the largest team and budget you have overseen? Please describe:The teams I have been on are generally collaborative, with no defined leader established. The largest team and budget would have been 10 people and roughly $40,000. The project was to travel from Canada to Guatemala to set up a computer room in an elementary school. The finances were very simple.

What is your TED Prize wish?I want to get everyone in the TED community working together to help each other achieve their goals, and I want that to spread to friends of the TED community and beyond. I want to establish a framework for collaboration that will allow people to be the change they want to see in the world. I want to stop telling people they can make a difference, I want to ask them what they want to change, and provide them with the resources they need to do it. Not just a website with some video, but helping them with their bills. Not by paying them, but by helping reduce them through.These things are all connected, I'm not sure which one is at the top.- everyone to be happier- everyone to be the change they want to see- solve every world issue- make the world a million times more collaborative- make it safe and appealing to help each other- use the latest technology- stop doing things inefficiently in order to make money- stop people from stealing from each other (- stop people hating themselves and each other- help people make better decisions- provide the missing rational consumer in the market, so that the market economy works like it should- help people understand themselves, their emotions and decisions better, and make red buttons to help them- I want to figure out how this whole thing works and tell everyone- I want to stop the need for charities, they will be seen as problems that need to be solved, on par with other problems.- I want to get us to where we all want to be- I want everyone to feel more gratitude and awe.- I want everyone to be more present, be less distracted. Live the life they want to live not the life they think they are supposed to live or the life they are tricked into living, only to find out later that they wasted their one and only life.- I want to be happier, I want to break free- I want everything to make more sense- I want us to all be able to say what we're thinking and realize that we're all thinking the same thing, - I want us to make deliberate choices, and if we're going to destroy the planet I want us to enjoy it, and if we realize we're destroying the planet and not enjoying it, we need to change something, hopefully less destruction, more happiness comes from it.

Describe the team – current or future – that you imagine helping you execute on your Prize plan.I am the current team. The team I imagine helping me execute the plan is Tony Robbins and Tim Ferris with some help from Dan Ariely. Everything now is web based so we will need web developers, and I think everyone needs at least one lawyer and accountant. Some marketing help from Seth Godin or Rory Sunderland would be nice as well. The plan is essentially life hacking on a grand scale, via the Groupon Facebook app to achieve the goals of Agenda 21 without being forced into it. And tweeting every minute of it (or maybe every day of it) People see great deals on great life hacks that benefit the individual and the group at the same time.Tony (or some of his programs slightly customized) would provide the

If you were to win the TED Prize, what would you realistically have to show after one year? What are the early wins?After 1 year?pre-TED we'll need a website, with some content, and a way for people to 'follow' usthe first year will be a pilot year, pre-established, we'll get everyone doing their own happiness projects, and we'll have a core 10 people on a happiness project. End of Year 1 a huge resource of how life hacks, a Maven Database. Then year 2 a larger pilot of total immersion, continued support for happiness projects. Year 3 take all of our money out of the stock market because the world is going to be upside down by the end. We roll-out large scale ability for people to join up for total immersion. End of year 3, 10 million people world wide doing happiness projects, impacting over 1 billion peoples lives, 100,000 people signed up for total immersion. many custom products which make our participants lives easier, and also sell to the public for profit or profit off their use. the profit going towards the ability to support more people in the immersion. The heightened awareness and decline of of global issues such as human trafficking, deforestation, over fishing, political corruption, corporate scandals, lobbying, and media bias.

The $1 million award will be paid out on a timeline of up to three years in order to match the needs of the winner and the pace of the project. How do you imagine the $1 million might be apportioned and paced, in your case?4-3-3, it should be funding itself after the first year, the $1mill will cover the core expenses as if it were a total failure. Run very bare bones to start. This money is basically salaries, website and legal fees. We need a bit more the first year to cover the initial web design/contract development. I want to run this like a $500 start up, but able to provide salaries to the people working on it.

Imagine you're on the stage at the TED Conference announcing your wish and inviting the wider community – everyone from corporate and nonprofit leaders to TED fellows doing grassroots work in developing countries – to get involved. In a few sentences, what is your ask?Join us in examining our lives to see why we do what we do, and how we can do it better. Start your own happiness project, follow the project, check out our tips, use what you like, rate them, participate to make our list of life hacks the best it can be. For you, for the world. Ask better questions, not how can I solve x, but how can i solve for x in such a way that the world works for 100% of humanity, including me. Don't get discouraged, just check the life hacker database or ask the crowd. We'll all be in it together. Everyone already is, they just don't realize it yet.

How do you imagine engaging the public, beyond TED, in the realization of your wish?a lot of retweets and conversations about the tips we give, and a lot of people trying things out, revamping their lives in small ways to take out some of the more irrational desctructive things they do on a regular basis.

Anything else we should know about you?

TED Speak - Key Words to RephraseThe goal of the foundation is to foster the spread of great ideas. It aims to provide a platform for the world's smartest thinkers, greatest visionaries and most inspiring teachers, so that millions of people can gain a better understanding of the biggest issues faced by the world, and a desire to help create a better future. Core to this goal is a belief that there is no greater force for changing the world than a powerful idea. Consider:

An idea can be created out of nothing except an inspired imagination.

An idea weighs nothing.

It can be transferred across the world at the speed of light for virtually zero cost.

And yet an idea, when received by a prepared mind, can have extraordinary impact.

It can reshape that mind's view of the world.

It can dramatically alter the behavior of the mind's owner.

It can cause the mind to pass on the idea to others.

Many factors can amplify the power of ideas: mass media, technology and market forces, to name three.

“My wish is to help design the future of learning by supporting children all over the world to tap into their innate sense of wonder and work together. Help me build the School in the Cloud.” --Sugata Mitra, winner of the 2013 prize“I wish for you to stand up for what you care about by participating in a global art project, and together we’ll turn the world…INSIDE OUT.” --JR in 2011“I wish for your help to create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity.” --Jamie Oliver in 2010“I wish you would use all means at your disposal — films! expeditions! the web! new submarines! — to create a campaign to ignite public support for a global network of marine protected areas, Hope Spots large enough to save and restore the blue heart of the planet.” --Sylvia Earle in 2009"I wish for all of your wishes to come true. I want to break down all of the barriers standing in the way of us using the solutions we have, and foster the growth of new ones.

I wish for you to use all means at your disposal to support a global network of change, seeking to make the world work for 100% of humanity.

I wish to get you all the support you need. I want to change the game from a few trying to convince the many, to the many seeking the advice of the few.

My wish is to make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest time possible. I want to accomplish this not only by calling people to action, but by providing an unlimited number of careers in the area of change.

I wish for you to all think bigger, and do more for yourselves by doing more for each other.

I wish to make everyone a little bit happier, and in the process solve some world problems.

I wish to start the world's first happiness service provider. I want you to sign up and spread the word. Through the pursuit of happiness we wish to reach world peace. We feel that if enough of us join the HSP we can coordinate the goals of the individuals such that they work in harmony rather than against each other. It is a

I wish for your help to change the way we measure success, make people happier, and solve some world problems in the process.

I wish for your help to solve every problem we have a solution for, and to come up with solutions for the ones we haven't figured out yet. I don't want to set the stage to solve one problem, I want to create the framework so that we can solve any problem that comes our way. It's like the IKEA guy who says 100% is easier than 90%, because you go all in, you don't have to worry about keeping the current model in tact, you just go for it. By focusing on one issue you are saying it's ok to let the others continue. How can you say I'm going to fix world hunger but not slavery, how can you make these trade offs. You might say, because we have to. But why? Because we don't have the resources. What don't you have? You have a world full of people that want a better future. Show them the plans and they will get to work. We have a world of resources, but what we need more than resources is people in alignment. People not counteracting each other. I can't have someone working on world water issues using a computer that is filled with conflict metals, drinking coffee harvested by slaves, and watching bootleg DVDs which fund the sex trade. They don't do it because they want to support those activities, they are just focused on their water project. So we need to design a framework for the whole thing.